Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting [+Video]

This Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is gentle, moist & deliciously buttery with a recent lemon taste. Dotted with poppy seeds & topped with cream cheese frosting – it’s the proper dessert for lemon lovers!

From Poppy Seed Muffins to Cake!

It’s a gentle, buttery, completely moist lemon cake that’s dotted with poppy seeds and topped with cream cheese frosting. It’s certainly one of my favourite muffins, and it’s the proper dessert for those who love lemon poppy seed muffins.

The inspiration for this cake got here after a buddy gifted us with a poppy seed roll. It was a yeast bread with a swirl of poppy seed filling, and completely scrumptious. As I used to be having a slice with a thick slather of butter, it bought me serious about poppy seed recipes and I noticed I hadn’t made any in a really very long time.

So – this lemon poppy seed cake was born.

We now have a whole video of precisely the best way to make it, so test it out…

What Do You Must Make Lemon Poppy Seed Cake?

The elements for this cake recipe are easy and pantry pleasant. Listed below are the objects you will have:

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

• Moist Elements: Granulated Sugar, Lemon Zest, Unsalted Butter, Eggs, Vanilla Extract, Bitter Cream, Buttermilk and Lemon Juice
• Dry Elements: All Goal Flour, Cornstarch, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Salt and Poppy Seeds

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Cream Cheese
• Unsalted Butter
• Powdered Sugar
• Lemon Juice

The measurements of every elements might be discovered within the recipe card on the finish of this put up. Preserve scrolling for all the main points.

Easy methods to Make Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

1. Prep: Preheat oven and grease a 9×13 baking pan.
2. Activate: Place the sugar and lemon zest in a small bowl and rub together with your fingers to activate the oils within the lemon zest.
3. Beat: Add the butter and sugar (with lemon zest) to the big bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and beat collectively till fluffy scraping down the perimeters as wanted.
4. Combine: Add within the eggs one by one after which the vanilla and blend till mixed.
5. Sift: Place all of the dry elements in a big bowl and sift (or whisk) to mix.
6. Mix: Slowly add the flour combination to the moist elements and blend till virtually mixed.
7. Add: Add the remaining moist elements and stir till simply mixed.
8. Fold: Sprinkle the poppy seeds over the batter and fold them into the batter utilizing a rubber spatula or picket spoon.
9. Bake: Pour the batter into the ready baking dish and bake as directed or till a toothpick inserted in the course of the cake comes out clear.
10. Cool: Let the cake cool fully earlier than frosting it.

Cream Cheese Frosting

After the cake is finished baking and cooled, it’s time to make the cream cheese frosting. Easy, creamy, a little bit tangy, and the proper pairing for this lemon cake.

1. Beat: Add the butter and cream cheese to a bowl and beat till mixed.
2. Add: Slowly combine within the powdered sugar and at last the vanilla (non-obligatory) and lemon juice.
3. Frost: Gently unfold the frosting over the cooled cake after which minimize and serve.

Preserve scrolling to the top of the put up to the recipe card for the entire directions. The recipe might be saved or printed from there as effectively.

Suggestions for Making the Finest Poppy Seed Lemon Cake

• Make sure you use actual butter and no butter substitutes. It provides extra taste.
• You may assume that since this can be a cake, it is best to use cake flour instead of the all function flour however I wouldn’t advocate it. For this recipe, all function flour works higher.
• To maintain the cake good and moist, we use bitter cream as a result of it makes the cake crumb oh so gentle and completely moist. Simply make sure that it’s room temperature for straightforward mixing.
• For the very best lemon taste, we use a mix of freshly squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest. Just remember to don’t use lemon juice from the bottle or lemon extract, in any other case the flavour will probably be too bitter.
• Watch out to not over combine your cake batter or else your selfmade lemon cake can find yourself dense. Having all of the elements at room temperature earlier than getting began helps with this.
• Likewise, utilizing room temperature cream cheese and butter will guarantee a clean and creamy texture within the frosting. We don’t desire a lumpy frosting!
• Place the baked cake within the fridge or freezer in order that it’s extra agency for simpler frosting.

Easy methods to Know If Poppy Seeds are Nonetheless Good?

One of the simplest ways to inform in case your poppy seeds have gone dangerous is by odor and look. They’ll odor bitter and rancid. Poppy seeds also needs to not clump collectively in any respect. If they’re sticking collectively, then they’re in all probability moist which implies they’re now not good.

Does a Glass Dish Require Extra Cooking Time Than Steel?

A reader just lately requested if her cake pan that could be a glass dish requires extra cooking time than a metallic dish does and because it’s such a superb query I wished to say it right here.

Glass heats up slower however holds on to warmth longer, so you could require a little bit extra baking time. To assist us not over bake this cake we prefer to open the oven on the finish and let the glass dish cake relaxation for as much as 4 minutes extra earlier than eradicating it from the oven to chill.

Can This Cake Be Made in a Bundt Pan?

Sure, this makes a ravishing bundt cake! The batter will slot in an ordinary 10 or 12 cup bundt pan. Make sure you grease the bundt cake extraordinarily effectively. You’ll want to extend the baking time. Set the time for 60 minutes however begin checking it at 45 minutes.

I prefer to hold the cream cheese frosting recipe the identical however simply skinny it out a little bit with milk or heavy cream in order that I can drizzle it excessive of the bundt cake.

Can You Freeze Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting?

You possibly can freeze Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. In truth, cream cheese frosting is right for freezing. It’s sturdy, with loads of fats, and it will do higher within the freezer than a extra delicate meringue-based icing. Simply wrap the cake effectively and freeze. Thaw earlier than serving.

OR You possibly can freeze the cake earlier than it’s frosted. Wrap your cooled cake in plastic wrap. Then wrap in tin foil or place in a plastic freezer bag and take away the air. Thaw the cake fully after which frost.  

I introduced this lemon poppy seed cake with cream cheese frosting over to a household dinner, and there wasn’t even a tiny sliver left over. It’s buttery, moist, stuffed with recent lemon taste, and the cream cheese frosting is all the things that you simply’d need it to be. Critically – for those who love lemon desserts, it is advisable to do that cake!

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